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They can also designate an entire area a face mask-free zone for the duration of a protest.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

They’ve already succeeded in convincing the government to designate the Vjosa Narta river area as a national park.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

It might deny a drug and designate a cheaper one, or it might say a procedure, test or treatment isn’t medically necessary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The third requires the government to consider economic and national security tradeoffs when deciding whether to designate a particular area as "critical habitat."

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

He couldn’t see it, of course, though later he said he had felt it come forward, had perceived it with the kind of knowledge that had made the people designate Seer as his true name.

From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry

The case stemmed from a broader legal dispute over the renaming of the cultural institution, which US law designates as a memorial to President John F Kennedy.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

The U.S. rightly designates GPS as critical infrastructure, but the reference frame that gives every GPS signal its meaning enjoys no such protection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Known as the Record of Emergency Data, this form designates that beneficiaries get $100,000 tax-free cash and any unreceived payments after a servicemember dies.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

The Five-Year Plan designates quantum as one of seven frontier technologies, with coordinated commercialization efforts focused on a smaller set of institutions.

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026

Goss used the pronoun that designates a male animal, not the pronoun for a human being in the masculine role of kemmer.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Delhi Police said on Monday it had removed the site from the list of designated protest venues.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Parvesh Cheena, the designated “man” in this company of “wives,” plays to the audience a bit too vociferously for laughs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Disagreements within the Tata Group have been simmering since the death of former chairman Ratan Tata - Noel Tata's half-brother who designated him successor after his death - in 2024.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

To celebrate Morris’s return, the town’s mayor officially designated Sept. 14 as Morris the Cat Day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

But another lesson might be that maybe you’re not the hero of every story, and maybe Farhad was Shirin’s true love, or maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

The ballot measure also would make a major change to gubernatorial recall elections by automatically designating the lieutenant governor as the replacement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

"It is the first model we are designating at this level, and requires stronger safeguards during development and before release," the blog said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

In 2025, the Onion ran a spoof headline imagining the State Department designating the league a terrorist organization.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

Under its Green Deal and related policies, the European Union is designating 30% of the continent as nature-protected by 2030.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

On August 11, 1919, the AFL granted a charter to the Boston Social Club, designating it as Boston Police Union No. 16,807.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler